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	#1940: A century of agriculture in Alaska
	This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute. Due to the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus closure until Jan. 5, 2009, the Alaska Science Forum for the week of Dec. 29, 2008 is arriving early. This column was originally published in 1998. More than 100 years ago, a man traveled north on a mission most people thought was ridiculous--to see if crops would grow in the frozen wasteland known as the Territory of Alaska. That man, Charles C. Georgeson, was a special agent in charge of the United States Agricultural Experiment Stations. The secretary of agriculture charged Georgeson with the task of finding out if crops and farm animals could survive in the mysterious land acquired just 21 years earlier from the Russians. When he landed at Sitka 100 years ago, Georgeson set in motion agricultural studies that are still carried on today at the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station...(more)

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A century of agriculture in Alaska; Ned Rozell. #1940; 12/24/08

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